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mbrlen(3)               Library Functions Manual               mbrlen(3)

NAME         top

       mbrlen - determine number of bytes in next multibyte character

LIBRARY         top

       Standard C library (libc, -lc)

SYNOPSIS         top

       #include <wchar.h>

       size_t mbrlen(const char s[restrict .n], size_t n,
                     mbstate_t *restrict ps);

DESCRIPTION         top

       The mbrlen() function inspects at most n bytes of the multibyte
       string starting at s and extracts the next complete multibyte
       character.  It updates the shift state *ps.  If the multibyte
       character is not the null wide character, it returns the number
       of bytes that were consumed from s.  If the multibyte character
       is the null wide character, it resets the shift state *ps to the
       initial state and returns 0.

       If the n bytes starting at s do not contain a complete multibyte
       character, mbrlen() returns (size_t) -2.  This can happen even if
       n >= MB_CUR_MAX, if the multibyte string contains redundant shift
       sequences.

       If the multibyte string starting at s contains an invalid
       multibyte sequence before the next complete character, mbrlen()
       returns (size_t) -1 and sets errno to EILSEQ.  In this case, the
       effects on *ps are undefined.

       If ps is NULL, a static anonymous state known only to the
       mbrlen() function is used instead.

RETURN VALUE         top

       The mbrlen() function returns the number of bytes parsed from the
       multibyte sequence starting at s, if a non-null wide character
       was recognized.  It returns 0, if a null wide character was
       recognized.  It returns (size_t) -1 and sets errno to EILSEQ, if
       an invalid multibyte sequence was encountered.  It returns
       (size_t) -2 if it couldn't parse a complete multibyte character,
       meaning that n should be increased.

ATTRIBUTES         top

       For an explanation of the terms used in this section, see
       attributes(7).
       ┌───────────────────┬───────────────┬───────────────────────────┐
       │ Interface         Attribute     Value                     │
       ├───────────────────┼───────────────┼───────────────────────────┤
       │ mbrlen()          │ Thread safety │ MT-Unsafe race:mbrlen/!ps │
       └───────────────────┴───────────────┴───────────────────────────┘

STANDARDS         top

       C11, POSIX.1-2008.

HISTORY         top

       POSIX.1-2001, C99.

NOTES         top

       The behavior of mbrlen() depends on the LC_CTYPE category of the
       current locale.

SEE ALSO         top

       mbrtowc(3)

COLOPHON         top

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